Overview of 'Aikatsu Stars!' Season 1

Episode 1 - The Beginning of a Dream

Release Date: 2016-04-07

Yume Nijino and her friend Koharu Nanakura, who want to join the top idol group S4, enroll at the idol school Yotsuboshi Academy, where the four members of S4; Hime Shiratori, Yozora Kasumi, Yuzu Nikaidou, and Tsubasa Kisaragi, study.

Episode 2 - The Two of Us are Rivals!

Release Date: 2016-04-14

As word spreads about Yume's performance, despite Yume herself being unable to remember what happened or repeat any of the prowess she showed in class, she and Koharu check out the various classes they can audition for.

Episode 3 - The Sky of My Color

Release Date: 2016-04-21

With the class sorting auditions approaching, Yume worries that she isn't good enough to join the Song Class.

Episode 4 - Always 100%!

Release Date: 2016-04-28

The first year students in the Song Class are tasked with working backstage at Aikatsu TV, setting up a stage for a fashion show that Hime and Yozora are appearing in.

Episode 5 - My Dress Make!

Release Date: 2016-05-05

The students are tasked with using the Dress Make system to design their own dresses.

Episode 6 - ROCK! Rock Girls!

Release Date: 2016-05-12

Yume, Koharu, and Rola decide to enter an audition for a drama starring S4, despite none of them having acted before.

Episode 7 - Simple is The Best!

Release Date: 2016-05-19

Rola enters an audition searching for individualistic idols to be the mascot of an ice-cream company.

Episode 8 - A Small Radiance

Release Date: 2016-05-26

As a fashion model contest is held for the Beauty Class first-years, Koharu befriends her classmate, Mahiru Kasumi. Koharu becomes hesitant to enter the audition, feeling she is lacking compared to everyone else, but Yume and Rola encourage her to have more confidence in herself.

Episode 9 - Miracle Girls

Release Date: 2016-06-02

Yume and Rola are selected to represent Yotsuboshi Academy in an open audition for a confectionary campaign girl, competing against idols from other schools.

Episode 10 - A Dream's Start Line!

Release Date: 2016-06-09

Yume is requested by the school's headmaster, Hikaru Moroboshi, to hold her first solo concert after Hime's concert gets cancelled.

Episode 11 - Stuck To! A Day with Hime Shiratori

Release Date: 2016-06-16

As an apology for the trouble caused by her concert's cancellation, Hime offers Yume the chance to be her manager for the day, as a television crew documents her schedule.

Episode 12 - The Fluttering Girlfriend

Release Date: 2016-06-23

Following a performance together, Yume and Rola encounter a scary creature on their way back to their dorms, where they face a punishment from Tsubasa for being late.

Episode 13 - Story of the Little Fairy

Release Date: 2016-06-30

Yotsuboshi Academy puts on an original movie in which Yume stars as a small fairy. Learning that her sister, played by Hime, has been kidnapped by a demon lord, Yume goes off towards his castle, coming across various allies along the way including M4's Nozomu.

Episode 14 - Mahiru's Battle!

Release Date: 2016-07-07

Yozora announces a contest for students to design their own dress for Romance Kiss and wear it in a special performance. While exploring town for ideas, Yume, Rola, and Koharu come across both Yozora and M4's Asahi, who are both revealed to be Mahiru's siblings.

Episode 15 - The Moon and The Sun

Release Date: 2016-07-21

As the top scorers of their respective classes, Rola, Ako, and Mahiru, along with the Dance Class' Luka Haruka, are chosen to pair up with the S4 members and compete in a Summer Fest tournament with lunch coupons up for grabs.

Episode 16 - Miracle Baton Touch

Release Date: 2016-07-28

While out doing a commercial shoot on the morning of the second day of Summer Fest, a camera malfunction puts Rola at risk of not making it back in time for her performance with Hime.

Episode 17 - Serious Switch!

Release Date: 2016-08-04

Yume, Koharu, Rola, and Ako appear on M4's variety show. As Ako remains intent on getting Subaru's attention, she is warned by Kanata Hira to keep things under control and treat her fellow idols as equals whilst on air.

Episode 18 - Together with Yuri-chan

Release Date: 2016-08-11

The girls hear about the Fresh Idol Election, in which the first-year idols will be ranked by fan votes, with the top four idols appearing in the upcoming Aikatsu Island event.

Episode 19 - Midsummer's Top Dancer

Release Date: 2016-08-18

Hoping to help Koharu with her heat exhaustion, Yuzu invites the girls to a Dance Battle tournament that she is participating in.

Episode 20 - Passion and Pride!

Release Date: 2016-08-25

Yume and the others sneak onto the set of a movie that Tsubasa is starring in alongside the rest of S4. During the shoot, Tsubasa gets a lot of slack from the lead actor, Taiyou, who seems to have lost his passion for acting.

Episode 21 - Feeling of the Desire to Win

Release Date: 2016-09-01

As the Song Class are faced with an audition to make their CD debut, putting Yume and Rola is direct competition with each other, they are required to wear weighted clothing during their training.

Episode 22 - Longing for the Road of Continuation

Release Date: 2016-09-08

Due to Moroboshi's meddling, Yume is given only a short amount of time to record a mini-album for her debut CD, with Hime's new album planned for release on the same day.

Episode 23 - Descent of the Tundra Songstress!

Release Date: 2016-09-15

Wanting to find her own individuality, Yume and the others go searching for seven "luckies" around the school said to grant wishes.

Episode 24 - Smiles are Rainbow-Colored

Release Date: 2016-09-22

After giving a group performance, Yume, Rola, Mahiru, and Ako are given a three day break from their activities. Learning that Yume's family runs a well known bakery, the girls all go to Yume's house to try their pastries.

Episode 25 - Broadway☆Dream

Release Date: 2016-09-29

As students are given roles in a Broadway Dream production for the upcoming school festival, Koharu is selected as a show dancer for one of the musical numbers.

Episode 26 - A Dream That Can't Be Taken

Release Date: 2016-10-06

Lily returns to Yotsuboshi Academy, though still struggles to participate in activities due to her weak constitution.

Episode 27 - Story of the Little Dress

Release Date: 2016-10-13

Yume and Lily go with Hime to her dress brand, My Little Heart, to observe the completion of her new dress.

Episode 28 - Halloween Magic

Release Date: 2016-10-20

On Halloween, the students are tasked with gathering the most candy through trick-or-treating in order to be crowned the Halloween Princess.

Episode 29 - True Rivals

Release Date: 2016-10-27

As the girls take part in an audition to perform during a soccer half-time show, Koharu is conflicted about potentially having to relocate to Italy with her family.

Episode 30 - Rainbow-Colored Candy

Release Date: 2016-11-03

After hearing from Koharu that she is moving overseas in a week's time, Yume works with her friends to throw her a surprise farewell party.

Episode 31 - Fly, SKY-GIRL!

Release Date: 2016-11-10

With students tasked with forming three-girl units for the upcoming Autumn Festival, Tsubasa invites Mahiru to join her unit alongside Yozora, which they decide to name Sky-Girl.

Episode 32 - Go Forth! Yuzukoshō!

Release Date: 2016-11-17

Roped into joining Yuzu and Ako's unit, Yuzukoshou, Yume is unable to get into the swing of things as she is worried about what would happen if she fails again.

Episode 33 - The Lost Laura!?

Release Date: 2016-11-24

Noticing Rola is still in a funk over not being able to beat Yume, Anna and Moroboshi arrange for her to be sent with Lily to the Spa Resort Okunotani.

Episode 34 - Stylish Girl Lesson

Release Date: 2016-12-01

As Mahiru is offered her own regular feature in a fashion magazine, she comes across two rude ganguro high school girls, Motoko and Eiko, scolding them for littering.

Episode 35 - The Chosen Stars

Release Date: 2016-12-08

Still worried about her power kicking in, Yume asks Hime for a full explanation about what is happening to her.

Episode 36 - Beyond the Rainbow

Release Date: 2016-12-15

Moroboshi arranges for Yume to hold a solo concert, threatening to expel her if she cannot satisfy 90% of the audience.

Episode 37 - An Exciting Christmas!

Release Date: 2016-12-22

The admins prepare to hold a party for Christmas Eve with a stream of S4's concert, encouraging Yume to put on a performance of her own alongside Rola, Mahiru, and Ako.

Episode 38 - Aikatsu New Year!

Release Date: 2017-01-05

After hosting a New Year's show, the S4 girls look back on how Yume and the others have grown over the past year, contemplating who is likely to be chosen for the upcoming S4 Selection.

Episode 39 - Four Star Academy, in a Crisis!?

Release Date: 2017-01-12

Overhearing a conversation between Moroboshi and Anna about the school being in financial crisis, Lily offers to represent Yottsuboshi Academy in a Russian brand designer contest which is offering a sponsorship for the winner.

Episode 40 - Chasing After Princess Dia!!

Release Date: 2017-01-19

The girls star in yet another drama, titled Aikatsu Detectives! The Princess Diamond Incident. As phantom thieves known as the Shadow Stars plot to steal Hime's Princess Diamond, Ako joins Tsubasa, Yuzu, Yozora, and Mahiru as part of an investigation team guarding the diamond at a party.